Zelman Kleinstein (
Latv
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: Zalamans Kleinsteins) in Dvinsk (now
Daugavpils
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in
Latvia
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), (1910 or 1912 – ?) was a Palestine/Israeli
chess
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player.
He played for Palestine (British Mandate) team in the
8th Chess Olympiad
The 8th Chess Olympiad (), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), comprised an open tournament, as well as a Women's World Championship contest. The main team event took place between August 21 and September 19, 1939, in ...
on fourth board (won 2, lost 6 and drew 2) at Buenos Aires 1939. In September 1939, when
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
broke out, Kleinstein, along with many other participants of that Olympiad, decided to stay permanently in Argentina.
Around 1970 he was still playing for San Telmo club of Argentina.
Ajedrez en San Telmo
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Jewish chess players
Israeli chess players
Israeli Jews
1910s births
Year of death missing
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